The ISE® Southeast Executive Forum and Awards will be held on March 13, 2012 at the Westin Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta, GA. The ISE® Southeast Award recognizes the information security executives and their teams who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in risk management, data asset protection, regulatory compliance, privacy, and network security.

The ISE® Southeast Awards are held in conjunction with a one day Executive Forum which includes keynote speakers, interactive roundtables moderated by the CISOs and VPs of participating companies, and hot topic panel discussions. The one day program offers the opportunity to meet with peers and leading IT executives from across the region to discuss and share insights into today's issues and solutions.

People's Choice Award Voting: Jan 24, 2012 – Feb 24, 2012

ISE® southeast Executive of the year Award Winner 2011

Chris Ray 2nd VP, Information Security and Software Change Management (CISO) Aflac Biography >

ISE® Southeast Project of the year Award Winner 2011

Project Name:	Identity Management
Executive Sponsor:	Scott Breece, Director of Security Strategy and Compliance
Project Team:	Brenton Warner
Description:	CHS is challenged with managing user accounts across multiple technologies. The management of users includes user provisioning for new employees, account management for roles based access and termination of accounts. The existing technology, Novell Identity Manager (SIM); is currently implemented into the environment. The current version of this technology doesn’t provide the flexibility to meet all the business needs as the environment has evolved. But, the newest revision level of the application presents new and improved features that will assist CHS with meeting the needs of the business.

ISE® southeast People's Choice Award winner 2011

Glen Taylor Vice President The Walt Disney Company Biography >

ISE® southeast Executive Award Finalists 2011

Brad Sanford Chief Information Security Officer Emory University Biography >

Glen Taylor Vice President The Walt Disney Company Biography >

ISE® Southeast Project of the year Award Finalists 2011

Project Name:	Global Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Platform
Executive Sponsor:	David Hannigan, VP, Global Security Compliance
Project Team:	David Hannigan, Jeff Jenkins, Jay Reid, Mohit Raut, Clarissa Banks, Hmong Vang, Robert Isaac, Ed Redmond
Description:	Equifax's Global GRC Platform project involved analyzing and automating security processes with a highly-customized application in order to provide the organization with a real-time view of its security and compliance efforts. The organization now has a central repository of information from functions such as policy exceptions, risk and compliance assessments, customer and regulatory compliance requirements, vulnerability tracking and application security reviews to enable the business to make more informed business decisions.
Project Name:	The HHS CyberSecurity Technology Project
Executive Sponsor:	Dan Galik, CISO
Project Team:	Dan Galik, Mike Cox, Kevin Charest, Wally Wilhoite, Paul Son, Jeff Graham, Johnny Hughes, Nancy Lim, Ryan Chapman, Matthew Shallbetter, John Trauth, George Young, Robert Chamberlin, Duc Nguyen, Travis Richardson, Steve Swansbrough, Tim Wells, Drew Wagner, Stuart Carmichael, Robert Barczyinski
Description:	The HHS CyberSecurity Technology project provided HHS Operational Divisions with the supporting infrastructure to build secure enclaves to house management components of essential information security technologies. The enclaves are a combination of network taps, firewalls, routers,switches & authentication technologies to allow seamless integration of Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems,Security Incident & Event Management for event correlation and Network Forensics tool for malware analysis.